What was the added cost to the MoD of the Iraq war?
£8 billion
That was the financial cost to the UK taxpayer of our involvement in the Iraq War - over & above what we were going to spend on defence anyway. It's £8 billion of additional spending.
That's not my estimate. That is the figure that Gordon Brown himself gave to the Iraq Inquiry (to check that, click HERE and read the paragraph from line 10 to line 19 on page 84).
£8,000,000,000.
It is a colossal sum of money - enough, in fact, to employ over 20,000 nurses for an entire decade. Or almost 15,000 police officers, again for 10 whole years. And that's everything - not just salary, but National Insurance contributions, pension costs, all that stuff too.
via Stuart Bonar
